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The partiality and polarisation of media over Russia and Ukraine was exposed in coverage of the murder of Russia’s opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Boris Nemtsov. WAN-IFRA's journalist Alexandra Sazonova-Prokouran assesses how the media reported the killing.

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"Who will protect the journalists?" Oleksandr Akymenko asks urgently as he describes the deliberate targeting of Ukrainian journalists in Crimea by Russian troops and separatists. Akymenko, one of the founders of the impressive YanukovychLeaks collaborative investigative journalism project, visited Paris this week to try to activate the global journalism communuity in support of Ukrainian journalists.